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Section 24.—
(a) Any fireplace or furnace which does not, as far as
practicable, consume the smoke arising from the combustible
used therein, and which is used for working
engines by steam, or in any mill, factory, dye-house,
brewery, bake-house, or gaswork, or in any manufacturing
or trade process whatsoever; and
(b) Any chimney (not being the chimney of a private
dwelling-house) sending forth black smoke in such
quantities as to be a nuisance;
shall be nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily under this
Act, and the provisions of this Act relating to those nuisances
shall apply accordingly:
Provided that the Court hearing a complaint against a person
in respect of a nuisance arising from a fireplace or furnace
which does not consume the smoke arising from the combustible
used in such fireplace or furnace, shall hold that no nuisance is
created and dismiss the complaint, if satisfied that such fireplace
or furnace is constructed in such manner as to consume as far as
practicable, having regard to the nature of the manufacture or
trade, all smoke arising therefrom, and that such fireplace or
furnacc has been carefully attended to by the person having the
charge thereof.
By Order.
Several instances of contravention of the Act have been
reported, and in each instance notice has been given that proceedings
would be taken in the event of a repetition of the
offence.
STONE YARD, WHITE HORSE STREET.
With regard to the obstruction of the light and air of the
Stone Yard in White Horse Street, caused by the widening of